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State Department

Jun 2020

Hmmm: Fired State Dept IG subject of massive leak probe? Update: House Dems refuse to hear rebuttal from State?

Ed Morrissey Jun 12, 2020 12:01 PM

Or did he ask too many questions about a Saudi arms deal?

May 2020

Romney: Trump’s firing of multiple IGs is “a threat to accountable democracy”; Update: Trump blames Pompeo

Allahpundit May 18, 2020 4:01 PM

Purge.

Apr 2020

Bad news for Beijing: COVID-19 propaganda campaign backfiring?

Ed Morrissey Apr 14, 2020 5:31 PM

Say, about that State Department memo …

WaPo: Did a 2018 State Department memo predict COVID-19 as a Wuhan biological-lab accident?

Ed Morrissey Apr 14, 2020 8:41 AM

“Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side.”

Jan 2020

Unfriendly skies: Delta, American cut off air service to China as WuFlu expands

Ed Morrissey Jan 31, 2020 2:01 PM

Will Trump formally ban all travel to China?

Pompeo to McConnell: I’m (maybe) not running for Senate

Ed Morrissey Jan 07, 2020 5:31 PM

But what about in 2024?

Iraqi PM steams: Soleimani attack “flagrant violation” of US-Iraq operating agreement

Ed Morrissey Jan 03, 2020 10:01 AM

Evacuation.

Dec 2019

Sure looks like Mike Pompeo’s going to have to quit the State Department and run for Senate

Allahpundit Dec 13, 2019 7:21 PM

“If Mike Pompeo doesn’t run, we don’t have a prayer.”

Nov 2019

Report: Mike Pompeo ready to bail out of the administration soon to run for Senate in Kansas

Allahpundit Nov 20, 2019 11:31 AM

“He knows that with Trump, loyalty only flows upstream.”

Uh oh: Hunter Biden’s name pops up in 2016 State Dept e-mails discussing pressure to end Burisma corruption probe

Ed Morrissey Nov 05, 2019 12:01 PM

Quid pro quo?

Oct 2019

State Department investigation of Clinton’s emails finds violations by 38 people

John Sexton Oct 18, 2019 8:41 PM

“…the use of a private email system to conduct official business added an increased degree of risk”

Breaking: Impeachment witness says he tried to warn about Ukraine influence — with Biden

Ed Morrissey Oct 18, 2019 8:41 AM

“Bandwidth” and bombshells.

Pompeo senior deputy: State Dept mistreated career diplomats as Pompeo politicized US diplomacy

Ed Morrissey Oct 16, 2019 12:01 PM

Plus: The return of an Amigo?

Hmmm: State Dept orders EU ambassador not to testify on Ukraine-Gate; Trump: “Kangaroo court”

Ed Morrissey Oct 08, 2019 10:01 AM

“… profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify today.”

Trouble? House Dems release State texts on Ukraine, Trump-Zelensky meeting

Ed Morrissey Oct 04, 2019 8:41 AM

WSJ: Leveraging meeting to get Burisma probe.

Jul 2019

Trump: We will no longer deal with the British ambassador who criticized me in private diplomatic cables; Update: May won’t budge

Allahpundit Jul 08, 2019 3:31 PM

Persona non grata.

Jun 2019

The State Department needs to issue travel warnings for Baltimore and Chicago

Jazz Shaw Jun 19, 2019 4:31 PM

And if not, why?

Apr 2019

NBC: Why are so many Trump inauguration donors appointed ambassadors?

Ed Morrissey Apr 03, 2019 4:01 PM

Off target but aiming in the right direction.

Feb 2019

NYT: ISIS bride Hoda Muthana might be a U.S. citizen after all

Allahpundit Feb 20, 2019 8:01 PM

Status.

Confirmed: FBI offered State a quid pro quo to keep Hillary e-mail classification quiet

Ed Morrissey Feb 12, 2019 5:31 PM

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Dec 2018

Federal judge: Hillary e-mail dodge “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency”

Ed Morrissey Dec 07, 2018 10:41 AM

“At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton…”

Sep 2018

State Department announces cuts to number of refugees U.S. admits

Jazz Shaw Sep 18, 2018 10:41 AM

Politically dicey, but with a purpose

“Unseemly and unprecedented”: Pompeo blasts John Kerry’s nuclear discussions with Iran as “beyond inappropriate”

Allahpundit Sep 14, 2018 8:41 PM

“Actively undermining U.S. policy as a former Secretary of State is literally unheard of.”

Assistant Secretary of State: It would be “very inappropriate” if John Kerry is conducting shadow diplomacy with Iran

Allahpundit Sep 13, 2018 10:01 PM

Coup.

Who leaked the Venezuela coup story, and why?

Jazz Shaw Sep 09, 2018 9:31 AM

Or perhaps more to the point, why now?

Arizona Democrat to ICE agents: “You will not be safe”

Karen Townsend Sep 01, 2018 10:01 AM

Fake news

Aug 2018

Omarosa: Trump knew about the emails before Wikileaks released them

Allahpundit Aug 14, 2018 4:01 PM

“I’m going to blow the whistle on all of it.”

Pompeo delivers letter from Trump to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

Karen Townsend Aug 05, 2018 12:31 PM

Cautious optimism

Jul 2018

Reuters: Butina met with two “senior” government officials … in 2015

Ed Morrissey Jul 23, 2018 10:01 AM

Red herrings.

Lankford: Come on, “no way” are we turning a US diplomat over to Putin’s security forces; Update: Trump “disagrees” on offer, Sanders says

Ed Morrissey Jul 19, 2018 12:01 PM

Even for this “incredible offer”?

May 2018

Pompeo: State Dept open for business, baby

Ed Morrissey May 15, 2018 2:01 PM

Control.

Apr 2018

Pompeo: No, I won’t resign as Secretary of State if Trump fires Mueller

Ed Morrissey Apr 12, 2018 6:01 PM

“I cooperated.”

Mar 2018

Rand Paul: Why is Trump nominating neocons instead of America Firsters?

Ed Morrissey Mar 14, 2018 4:01 PM

Filibuster?

“Relief”: State Department employees cheer Tillerson firing

Allahpundit Mar 13, 2018 6:01 PM

“This team has proven itself incapable of managing the State Department.”

State Dept closes Mexican consulate, warns Americans in Yucatan area

Ed Morrissey Mar 09, 2018 10:41 AM

“We do not know why the U.S. government decided to emit this alert.”

State Dept: We’ve confirmed use of VX to assassinate Kim brother

Ed Morrissey Mar 07, 2018 6:01 PM

Symbolic sanctions and cautious openings.

Feb 2018

Former State official: I was a teenage Steele-Blumenthal-FBI conduit, or something

Ed Morrissey Feb 09, 2018 12:01 PM

“I did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the U.S. government.”

Jan 2018

Say, where are all the ambassadors, anyway?

Ed Morrissey Jan 30, 2018 10:01 AM

Competence.

Nov 2017

Media salivating over potential Rex vs Ivanka cage fight

Jazz Shaw Nov 25, 2017 8:31 AM

Less than meets the eye

Oct 2017

Breaking: Catalonia declares independence as Spain readies takeover

Ed Morrissey Oct 27, 2017 12:01 PM

“This movement is textbook populism, full of magical thinking.”

US to UNESCO: We’re outta here until you end anti-Israel bias; Update: Israel exits too

Ed Morrissey Oct 12, 2017 12:01 PM

“This decision was not taken lightly …”

NBC: Tillerson nearly resigned, called Trump a “moron” in July; Tillerson: No, I didn’t consider resigning

Ed Morrissey Oct 04, 2017 11:21 AM

“I have never considered leaving this post.”

US to 15 Cuban diplomats: Get out

Ed Morrissey Oct 03, 2017 12:01 PM

Reciprocity.

Sep 2017

Vatican recalls diplomatic official after State Dept demand on child-porn probe

Ed Morrissey Sep 15, 2017 2:41 PM

USCCB to Vatican: Be transparent.